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Krita Monthly Update - Edition 27

Previous Post | Friday, 6 June 2025 | Reading time: 3 minutes |

Welcome to the May 2025 development and community update.

Community Report

May 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

24 forum members took on the challenge of the "Humongous Hats" theme. And the winner is… Mouse Sage 🐭 by @Mythmaker

Mouse Sage 🐭 by @Mythmaker

The June Art Challenge is Open Now

For the June Art Challenge, @Mythmaker has passed the honor of choosing the topic to regular participant @Corentin, who has chosen "Wrath of the Sun" as the theme. Interpret this title however you want, optionally include some sort of decorative design, and have fun with the sun!

Best of Krita-Artists - April/May 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 20 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner: King-under-Leaves by @canedo

King-under-Leaves by @canedo

Illustration by @JoaoGGarin

Illustration by @JoaoGGarin

Tree Sparrow by @kacart

Tree Sparrow by @kacart

Splattery trees by @SebSepia

Splattery trees by @SebSepia

New Life Zone by @Yaroslavus_Artem

New Life Zone by @Yaroslavus_Artem

Best of Krita-Artists - May/June 2025

Take a look at the nominations for next month, and suggest your favorite latest artworks to be featured. Don't forget to vote when the poll opens on June 11th!

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Support Krita financially by making a one-time or monthly monetary donation. Or donate your time and Get Involved with testing, development, translation, documentation, and more. Last but not least, you can spread the word! Share your Krita artworks, resources, and tips with others, and show the world what Krita can do.

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from May 8 - June 6, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.10-prealpha):

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Bug fixes:

Features:

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.10-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64